‘Win or die’: the forgotten army of monarchists and priests who wanted to crush the French Revolution

2023-09-15 14:33:51
Director Vincent Mottez remembers, and it will be difficult for him to forget, the exact moment in which the Puy du Fu theme park contacted him to lead its leap to the big screen: «They called me and told me that they wanted to film the story of a rebel who had fought against the French Revolution in the region of La Vendée, on the west coast of France. He didn’t let them finish the sentence: “Of course, François de Charette!” The result has been ‘Win or Die’, a film focused on an episode as unknown as it is shocking and that was filmed in less than three weeks; “eighteen days, to be more specific,” as the filmmaker explains. And today it premieres in… See More
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